Thoughts on various scientific items stumbled across; a critic’s take on new discoveries; a civilian’s view of what it might mean.
Dan Kaminsky, a packet-obsessed crypto guy, has been monkeying with volumetric ways of visualizing the randomness — the entropy — in sets, and along the way, he’s started visualizing other kinds of information. Neat stuff, this “time as third dimension” stuff. “…we’re going to abuse the technology a bit in the name of art…”
At least postdoc is only #10 on the list, one above metric system advocate…
Maybe I’m following this story too closely … but it does intrigue me. Especially: Varadarajan said all the code he wrote for Virginia Tech’s Linux-based clusters was moved over to the Mac OS X computers with relative ease. Which makes me raise an eyebrow because porting the terminal apps shouldn’t be that rough and w/ […]
Photos of Virginia Tech’s PowerMac G5 Cluster. UPDATE! Chaosmint’s notes about VT’s G5 cluster.
“This is the dream – we’re going to get this sensational footage of the giant squid trying to do obscene things with the camera.” Something about this is simultaneously disgusting, rivetting, boring, fascinating, puerile, infantile, scientific, and just plain funny.
One professor Friday stood nervously away from Wallace’s reactor – which is notably free from any shielding – but he needn’t have worried: Wallace’s detector measures 36 neutrons per minute just in background radiation from space, and the device’s usual output adds only four neutrons per minute. People in airplanes absorb much more than that.
DistributedFolding.org … it’s a lot like SETI@Home but here on Earth. And much more likely to yield immediate, fruitful results. The long & short? Proteins. Proteins get all bunched up and folded when made and somehow (no one’s really sure how yet) these proteins get turned into cells and enzymes and all those other complex […]